Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-03
General News.
ansas CITY has 81 churches.

Kansas City has 81 cnurcnes.
Some friends of Princeton have endowed
several new felowships, which Will yield
| $500 to $500 per year each.
Over 1000 public school childen of Phila-
delphia are to sing at the Constitutional Gen.
tennial Celebration on Sep. H.
The total expense of the Presidential office
for the current year. including the salaries
of the President and his official staff, amounts
to Sl16,364.
The amount annually expended for benevo-
lent purposes in New York is estimated at
about 81. 500, 900. There are 800 charitable
societies and institutions.
According to Lieut.. Zolnsky, iron cooled
while a strong current of electricity was pass
ing through it was increased fully one-half
in tensile, strength and ductility.
The new iron bridge to be built over the
Connecticut river, by the New York 4 New
England Railroad Company, at Hartford, will
have seven spans, each l50 feet long. 1t will
be double tracked.
woman in a hospital at Joliet, ILL.,, is
said to have been in 4 cataleptic trance TOR
225 days. She receives very little food, and
is almost skeleton. The case puzzles the
doctors.
The Australians find it quite impossible to
get rid of the plague of rabbits. New South
Wales has expended the enormous sum OF
81 ,S09, AGO, or nearly twenty cents apiece,
for killing 5,883,78 of them, and yet instead
of decreasing the pests appear to be increas-
ing in number
Farth.n0s are still in use in England,
thou Oh to such a limited extent that men,
Der of the Royal Commission on Gold and
Silver was ignorant of the fact until informed
during an investigation some time ago. They
are used chiefly in buying papers at trade
prices, when quarter fractions of penny
come into use.
Thirty thousand medals of one kind have
been made for the Bulgarian army, sixty
thousand of another kind, and Vienna
factory is engaged in making an unlimited
number of medals of yet another kind. And
all for Bulgarian soldiers. Measured by
medals, Bulgaria would rate as one of the
greatest of all European States.
The German system for pensioning work
men in their old age will cause a tax of three
marks per year on all, estimated at 257 900
marks This will give State credit of about
22, 600, 900 marks. Workmen over 80 years
of age when the bill shall have passed will
be excluded.
Baltimore has 800 churches, chapels, and
synag lgues. As to communicates. the Ro
man Catholic Church stands first, the Metho-
fourth, the Presbyterian fifth, and the Jewish
sixth The population is about 100000. OF
this, 100000 is Roman Catholics, 10000
Protestsnts, and so, 900 unevsngelzed
4 The Hawaiian 'srmy" consists of one
"generalissimo," five colonies, five majors,
one adjutant-general, one quartermsster-ge
ersl, one intelligence officer, one engineer,
one aide de-camp, one adjutant, one captain,
two lieutenants, eight sergeants, sixteen
corporals, one bandmsster, twenty four bands
men and sixty privates. 1t is supposed to
have been modelled after the United States
army on peace footing.
Some facts about London: About twenty
eight miles of new streets are laid out each
year; about 900 houses are erected yearly
about 100000 houses are already erected
about 10000 strangers enter the city each
day; about l25 persons are added daily to
the population; about 100000 foreigners live
in the city; about 1919 900 psupers and beg,
gsrs infest the CITY; ABBOTT 10000 police keep
order; about 1000 cergymen hold forth
every Sunday; about 8 900 horses die every
week; and, it is said, about 700, 900 cats en-
I liven the moonlight nights.